Dependency Management and WordPress: A Proposal
‘Dependency hell’ is a problem faced by all software, and it has been rearing its ugly head in the WordPress space over the last few years with more and more… Read more
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WP Offload S3 1.4 Released
Today is release day for WP Offload S3 and with it comes some new features and some changes. It’s been just over two months since we released version 1.3, but… Read more
Ashley
Mar 14, 2017
Introducing WP Image Processing Queue – On‑the‑Fly Image Processing Done Right
I’ve been bugging core contributors and plugin authors about background processing for a year and half now. To the point where Krogsgard even made fun of me for it at… Read more
Brad
Mar 7, 2017
Automating Local WordPress Site Setup with Scripts Part 3: Automating the Rest
This is article 3 of 3 in the series “Automating Local WordPress Site Setup with Scripts” In my last post in the Automating Local WordPress Setup series, I created a… Read more
Matt Shaw
Feb 21, 2017
Our Struggles to Stay Healthy While Working From Home Part 2
This is article 2 of 2 in the series “Our Struggles to Stay Healthy While Working From Home” It’s been just over a year since we posted about our struggles… Read more
Iain Poulson
Jan 31, 2017
Hooks, Line, and Sinker: WordPress’ New WP_Hook Class
The hooks system is a central pillar of WordPress and with the 4.7 release a major overhaul of how it works was merged. The Trac ticket that initially raised an… Read more
Peter Tasker
Jan 24, 2017
Deploying WordPress Plugins with Travis CI
Ever since I built my first WordPress plugin, the process of deploying the code to the WordPress.org Subversion repository has been a painful one. With Git as the widespread VCS… Read more
Iain Poulson
Dec 6, 2016
On The Fly Image Processing Causes More Problems Than It Fixes
Update 2017-03-07: We’re now offering a better solution to on-the-fly image processing. Images are the bread and butter of the web. Without images and other media the web would be… Read more
Ian McFarlan
Nov 29, 2016
Finding Bottlenecks in WordPress Code
A few months back Iain wrote about how our team pushes each other to be better developers, which included insights into how we improve code quality using tools such as… Read more
Ashley
Nov 15, 2016
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Giving a Talk
I’ve attended many conferences in my time and watched every single speaker with admiration, because just the thought of getting up and talking to an audience myself leaves me in… Read more
Iain Poulson
Nov 8, 2016
WP Migrate DB Pro 1.7 & CLI Addon 1.3 Released
Just 5 months after our last major release, I’m happy to announce the release of WP Migrate DB Pro 1.7 and CLI addon 1.3. In the past, we’ve struggled with… Read more
Brad
Nov 1, 2016
Automating Local WordPress Site Setup with Scripts Part 2: Creating a WP-CLI Package
This is article 2 of 3 in the series “Automating Local WordPress Site Setup with Scripts” In my previous article in this series, I discussed some simple ways to make… Read more
Matt Shaw
Oct 18, 2016
WP Offload S3 1.2 Released
After nearly 6 months of development I’m pleased to announce the release of WP Offload S3 1.2. For now you’ll need to download it from My Account. Updates through the… Read more
Ashley
Oct 4, 2016
Creating a Custom addon for Local by Flywheel
Update: This post was originally written about Pressmatic before the app was purchased by Flywheel and had its name changed to “Local”. I have updated the post’s text and most… Read more
Jeff
Sep 27, 2016
Building Reactive WordPress Plugins – Part 3 – Elm
This is article 3 of 3 in the series “Building Reactive WordPress Plugins” In this final part of the Building Reactive WordPress Plugins series I’ll be exploring using Elm to… Read more
Ian
Sep 20, 2016
Freemius Monetization Review: An Easy Way to Sell Your Plugins and Themes
Ever since building my first WordPress plugin I have been interested in the different business models around monetizing plugins. A while back I heard of Freemius, a monetization service for… Read more
Iain Poulson
Aug 30, 2016
Scaling a Cron: Checking Hundreds of Sites Every Minute
In my last article I described how I built a cloud app using Laravel Spark. Web Uptime is a website uptime and monitoring app that checks your website’s status every… Read more
Gilbert Pellegrom
Aug 23, 2016
Assets Addon 1.2 for WP Offload S3 Released
Another awesome iteration of the Assets addon has arrived. In version 1.2, we’ve redesigned part of the UI to fix some of the things that have been irritating us. For… Read more
Brad
Jul 27, 2016
Delicious Brains in Vienna: Our Second Annual Company Retreat
A few weeks ago, our team descended upon Vienna, Austria for our second annual company retreat and WordCamp Europe. After last year’s retreat around WordCamp Miami we had decided that… Read more
Brad
Jul 19, 2016
Tips for Power Users of WP Migrate DB Pro
As a developer, I love simple tools that do a specific set of tasks really well and then get out of your way. I use tools like MAMP, WP-CLI, Grunt,… Read more
Jeff
Jul 12, 2016
Building a SaaS app with Laravel Spark: Web Uptime
If you keep up with the Laravel community at all you’ll be aware that Taylor Otwell recently released his much anticipated SaaS scaffolding library called Spark. Spark is a library… Read more
Gilbert Pellegrom
Jun 21, 2016
Hey WordPress Developers, Your Clients Should Own Their Plugin Licenses
Before we get into this I want to say that WP Migrate DB Pro doesn’t really apply here. It’s a developer tool so the developer should own the license, not… Read more
Brad
Jun 14, 2016
Building Reactive WordPress Plugins – Part 2 – Vue.js
This is article 2 of 3 in the series “Building Reactive WordPress Plugins” In the first part of this series I showed you how to build WP Cron Pixie, a… Read more
Ian
Jun 7, 2016
How Our Team Pushes Each Other to be Better Developers
Since I started working at Delicious Brains, it seems we have been hiring pretty much constantly. Prospective new hires go through a few weeks trial where they work on our… Read more
Iain Poulson